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* The Series/SesameStreet spinoff Abby's Flying Fairy School actually flies, and the students learn how to harness their magic and deal with magical creatures.

* As far as Anime/{{Pokemon}} trainer Ash Ketchum is concerned, the Pokémon School on Melemele Island is pretty damn cool, and so is [[CoolTeacher Professor Kukui]]. It has to be to earn the approval of our BookDumb IdiotHero. It helps that it ''is'' a school for learning about Pokémon, and many of the lessons are hands-on.

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* ''[[SpaceCadetAcademy Any School]]'' [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]] would probably fit this trope.

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* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Tim's first girlfriend Ariana attends a magnet school for the performing and visual arts that she and her fellow students love. The school itself is never seen but she's quick to gush about it to Tim's public school friends.

* [[Film/SkyHigh2005 Sky High]] is cool, especially if you have powers which are impressive enough to get you assigned to the Hero class. Even if you are classified as a Sidekick, it's got to be nice to be in a school where having superpowers doesn't make you stand out as much and others can relate to what it's like to have them.

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* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' takes place at Duel Academy, where students are placed into color-coded classes based on their level of ability.

The Trope is often a WishFulfillment fantasy of [[AuthorAppeal the writer]] and almost always one of the fandom. Who ''wouldn't'' want to go to/have gone to this school? Even if it's dangerous, it's never the kind of place that treats you like [[AssimilationAcademy National Student Database Entry #78956723567606]] or [[OnlyInItForTheMoney just the $1,000,000,000,000 "donation" for a new school building]], and what you learn there is [[SchoolSavedMyLife going to be useful]].

* [[Music/VillagePeople In the Navy]], sailors learn to [[CoolBoat sail]] aboard [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_ship Training Ships]]. If you're thinking of writing about one and it isn't [[CoolShip in space]] or otherwise not LikeRealityUnlessNoted, the real life "Ship Prefix" is... TS ''Name of Ship''. Otherwise, feel free to use a FantasticShipPrefix.

* [[Music/VillagePeople In the Navy]], sailors learn to [[CoolBoat sail]] aboard [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_ship Training]] [[https://infogalactic.com/info/Training_ship Ships]]. If you're thinking of writing about one and it isn't [[CoolShip in space]] or otherwise not LikeRealityUnlessNoted, the real life "Ship Prefix" is... TS ''Name of Ship''. Otherwise, feel free to use a FantasticShipPrefix.

* The Sesame Street spinoff Abby's Flying Fairy School actually flies, and the students learn how to harness their magic and deal with magical creatures.

So then how do you know it's this trope? The [[TitleDrop Cool School]] is [[SugarWiki/CoolSchool too cool]] to be ''your'' school, a school that's probably very good at teaching, thanks to [[OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding no shortage of funding]] and/or a ReasonableAuthorityFigure (or a few). Expect the textbooks and the AppliedPhlebotinum to be full of DangerousForbiddenTechnique[=s=] and SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology or [[{{Magitek}} Magic]] respectively if the setting is in any way fantastical. If it isn't, it's probably one of the weirder school types not in the Extranormal Institute list like the SchoolOfSeduction or ClownSchool and/or has a WackyHomeroom if it's not a WackyCollege. The Library will be at ''least'' well-stocked, and there's a chance it's a GreatBigLibraryOfEverything.

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* ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' is more focused on [[TheMetaverse the OASIS]] in general, though the protagonist, Wade Watts, starts out living in [[UrbanSegregation the stacks]], a combination urban ghetto, third-world slum and trailer park, but attending school on the virtual planet [[MeaningfulName Ludus]]. The planet has many carbon-copy school buildings and is as mundane as a school in virtual reality can get, though Ludus' schools do have a class dedicated to completing what is essentially [[{{Metagame}} the entire plot of the book]].

* Most Universities that are [[{{Oxbridge}} well known]] for their [[UsefulNotes/IvyLeague prestige]] [[StrawmanU and/or]] [[WackyCollege zany student pranks]].

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' takes place at Duelist Academy, where students are placed into color-coded classes based on their level of ability.

* ''Film/SkyHigh|2005'' is cool, especially if you have powers which are impressive enough to get you assigned to the Hero class. Even if you are classified as a Sidekick, it's got to be nice to be in a school where having superpowers doesn't make you stand out as much and others can relate to what it's like to have them.